Edmanson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Lampasas. Tried below before the Hon. M. M. White. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully pursuing the occupation of taking orders for intoxicating liquors in local option territory; penalty; a fine of $6,000 and ninety days confinement in the county jail.
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Appeal from the County Court of Lampasas. Tried below before the Hon. M. M. White. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully pursuing the occupation of taking orders for intoxicating liquors in local option territory; penalty; a fine of $6,000 and ninety days confinement in the county jail. Leaving out formal averments the information charged the defendant as follows: that heretofore, to wit, on the 28th day of September, 1908, in the county of Lampasas, in the State of Texas, an election in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas was held under authority of an order of the Commissioners…
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
In this case appellant was charged by information and complaint with the offense of pursuing the occupation of taking orders for intoxicating liquors in Lampasas County, Texas, when prohibition was ill force in said county. He was tried and convicted, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $6,000 and imprisonment in the county jail for ninety days.
There were some twenty witnesses introduced by the State who testified that they went to a cold drink stand run by appellant in Lampasas and gave him orders for intoxicating liquors. That he would telephone the orders to a liquor…
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